If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy.
Today\’s is from Ross \”Do That Thing\” Douthat, who in his column \”Israel and Outremer,\” compares Israel to the Crusade-era French Outremer kingdoms in the Palestine region:
Out of a mix of amnesia and self-abnegation, we tend to remember the Crusader states only as deplorable exercises in Western aggression. (Never mind that in an age defined by conquest and reconquest, they were no less legitimate than the Muslim states they warred against — which had themselves been founded atop once-Christian territories.)
Oooh, self-abnegation: That\’s a big word—color me impressed—you must be on to something. But, really, your \”two wrongs makes a right\” analogy doesn\’t hold water. Neither does you writing talent.
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